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Titre Energy and wood in the French Alps: strategies for an uncertain resource
Auteur Hélène Avocat*, Antoine Tabourdeau*, Christophe Chauvin, Marie-Hélène De Sede Marceau
Mir@bel Revue Revue de Géographie Alpine
Numéro vol. 99, no 3, 2011 La forêt sur le devant de la scène : une ressource naturelle témoin de notre temps ?
Résumé anglais During the last decade, fuelwood has developed in the alpine territories under voluntarist policies. Facing a next shortage of sawmill by-products, widely used for paper, chipboards and pellets, forest chips are bound to develop for industrial or local use. This is an opportunity for the alpine forests and territories, of which, nevertheless, vulnerability must be taken in account. Studying policies and instruments shows very contrasted approaches, which could generate tensions on the resource, and behaviors in possible contradiction with de development of a true green energy, such as: increase of transport lengths and then of pollutants emissions, degradation of the environment, and loss of the multifunctionality of the forests.
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